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Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film News

Assistant Professor of Practice in Emerging Media Arts Anna Henson speaks to cast and crew at an early table read for

‘Big Fish’ provides big opportunities for collaboration

April 24, 2024

Theatrix presents ‘Act a Lady’ April 18-21

April 15, 2024

Ash Eliza Smith, Edgeworks co-principal investigator, leads students through a multi-disciplinary curriculum at the intersection of medicine and emerging media arts. (Courtesy/Amanda Christi)

Carson Center offers game-changing research

April 10, 2024

‘Big Fish’ opens April 25

March 28, 2024

"The Flick" cast includes (left to right) Sofia Drelicharz, Mekhi Mitchell, Jackson Wells and Luke Stursma. Photo by Brian Garbrecht.

Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents ‘The Flick’

February 28, 2024

EMA students place in 48-hour entrepreneurship challenge

February 19, 2024

Jinku Kim's

Kim’s work featured in Kiewit Luminarium ‘Glow’ exhibit

November 21, 2023

The Open Studios event on Dec. 8 features work from multiple classes from students in emerging media arts and theatre-design and technical production. Photo by Laura Cobb.

Carson School Open Studios is Dec. 8

November 20, 2023

Carson School to host world premiere reading of Kirk’s ‘A House Divided’

November 17, 2023

Peter Flaherty's "The Dial" will be at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Oct. 27-Dec. 1. A new form of storytelling, "The Dial" combines an interactive narrative with augmented reality and projection mapping.

Flaherty brings interactive ‘The Dial’ to Carson Center

October 13, 2023

A still from the Speculative Devices Lab, a working prototype that shows a combination of photogrammetry, 360 video and 2D archival image within a Real-Time 3D game engine that allows the player to move around the environment with six degrees of freedom and experience in a VR headset or on a computer screen. Image courtesy of Speculative Devices Lab.

Interdisciplinary UNL research team re-imagines decommissioned missile silo through storytelling, emerging technologies

October 5, 2023

Kylie Muller (left), an emerging media arts major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was among four students who taught filmmaking skills to Native youth during a film camp at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in late July and early August. Courtesy photo.

Huskers mentor young filmmakers on the Pine Ridge Reservation

September 29, 2023